Tied Up Drawer Niche

A drawer up-turned to make a hanging wall shelf!

It’s always fun to work with things that can be made into something that they were not meant to be. And for our next DIY, we have the same contextual intention. We have all used drawers to store or shove things in. But in this project we convert the drawer into a wallhanging niche: for us to store our beautiful decor possessions.

The idea is as simple and as effective as it could be. All we need is an old drawer and a rope. It’s good to give the worn out drawer a nice paint job to add the newness to it. Then we drill in 2 holes on either side on the upper end of the drawer. Next just pass on the rope through the holes and knot them up so as to not let the rope slip off. Once done with these steps, all we need to do is to hang the now vertical drawer on a nice, empty wall.

The drawer can now be used as a shelf to show-case our beautiful homely knick-knacks. Make vignettes of vases, photo-frames, clocks, books or anything you find appealing. Your very own home-created niche/shelf made of a drawer is ready to flank your walls and flaunt your possessions.

Wall of Thrones

Painted wooden wall hangings inspired from ‘Game of Thrones’

Obsession – that’s one word that the Game of Thrones series have created. And we’re yet another victims of it. From the conspiracies to the drama, the blood-shed to the passion – it’s all so bloody damn invigorating.

This obsession became our new inspiration – to translate the Gamer of Thrones euphoria into a creative home décor art piece. And we thought that a creative representation of the 7 kingdom sigils overlaid on the map of Westeros & Essos would combine all the essence of our inspiration.

Raw wood – that became our base. We got the wood bark cut into fattish circular discs. No treatment, no polishing required – just kept it raw.

We painted the following sigils of the famous houses on these wooden discs:

1.       The Direwolf of House Stark

2.       The Crowned Stage of House Baratheon

3.       The Golden Lion of House Lannister

4.       The Rose of House Tyrell

5.       The Kraken of House Greyjoy

6.       The 3-Headed Dragon of House Targaryen

7.       The Moon & Falcon of House Arryn

Lastly, we screwed in hook-clips on the back-side of the wooden-sigils. With hooks on we can hang them in the fashion we desire. We made an outline of the ‘the known world’, and hanged the wooden-sigils at the houses’ respective locations on the map.

Our fantasy inspired, wall-art is ready to be displayed and the castles ready to destroy each other, because, “When you play a game of thrones you win or you die.” 

Hangable wall-art is a great way to showcase our inspirations and creativity. Chose a plain wall in your room and put and change interesting art-pieces. So every time guests come in, you have something new to flaunt.